Design Styles, Web Roles and How to Break the Box

Reading some articles this weekend, I came across some interesting articles.
LAYOUT CONVENTIONS
The first article Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions is an interesting article about poor layout design. Not sure I agree completely, but it’s good food for thought. As you are designing your interfaces, I suggest you reread my post about web 2.0 design […]


Redesign #2: Cat Prin

Here’s a link to the original Cat Prin website.
My redesign:


Websites from Tuesday’s lecture

Below is a listing of the sites I shared in class on Tuesday, with some additions. One of the best is the Web Design from Scratch site. It’s an excellent resource for aspiring web communicators. It’s definitely a resource to use again and again.
Remember the one of the key points from our discussion on Tuesday […]


Visual Design - Web 2.0 Design Style

With the advent of “Web 2.0” new design styles have emerged. Just as I showed with the case study on Tuesday (garyengbergoutdoors.com old and new), design styles are becoming more sophisticated. Ben Hunt from Web Design from Scratch shares his perspective with a Web 2.0 Style Guide and he outlines some basic principles to consider.